Florence Mary Taylor b. 1879

  • Architect
Florence Mary Taylor CBE OBE was Australia's first qualified woman architect, structural engineer and civil engineer. With her husband, architect-engineer-aviator George Taylor, she edited and published Building and Engineering and other trade journals, and town planning books, including visionary schemes for Sydney's future development.

Citations

  • Freestone, Robert (1991), 'Florence Taylor: the lady town planner of Loftus Street’, New Planner, December, pp11-12.

  • Giles, J.M. (1959), 'Fifty Years of Town Planning with Florence Taylor’, Building Publishing Company, Sydney, NSW.

  • Hanna, Bronwyn (1994), 'Florence Taylor’s hats’, Architecture Bulletin, Oct.

  • Ludlow, Christa (1990), 'Taylor, Florence Mary (1879 – 1969)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [12], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, [176-177].

  • Murray, Rosemary (1976), Master of Architecture thesis, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW.

  • Hanna, Bronwyn (2000), 'Absence and Presence: A historiography of early women architects in New South Wales’, Doctor of Philosophy thesis (Architecture), University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW.

  • Hanna, Bronwyn (1995), 'Florence Taylor’s town planning career and historical significance’, Urban Planning History Planning Conference Papers 3, Urban Research Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.

  • Hanna, Bronwyn (1999), 'The tailoring of Florence Taylor’s life story’, Insite, 1.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book